Love, Anyways is a collection of short stories that dares to ask: what do we cling to when love has already broken us?

These stories wander through the ruins and miracles of intimacy. A woman haunted by the ghost of a lover who never truly left. Two men who find freedom in each other’s arms, even as the world tries to tear them apart. A boy who mistakes cruelty for affection, and a girl who learns that tenderness sometimes cuts the deepest.

Across voices, places, and lives, the collection traces the fragile persistence of love in its many guises—romantic, desperate, obsessive, fleeting. Sometimes it arrives like a storm. Sometimes it leaves in silence. Sometimes it burns everything down and asks you to rebuild from the ash.

Written in lyrical, unflinching prose, Love, Anyways is for readers who crave the raw and the real—the kind of stories that bruise but also glimmer. It is not love as a fairytale, but love as survival: messy, tender, merciless, unforgettable.